Westland Theater on Second Street in the 1937 Flood

ID: 776 ~ Source: William J. Glockner, History of the Movie Theaters in Portsmouth, Ohio and Scioto County (2003). Center for Public History Archive, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 1937

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Westland Theater on Second Street in the 1937 Flood

This file appears in: Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theater

Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theater

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